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[Maximo]

I often wonder until I see a (supposedly) authentic Lancer #968 SPOILER clear body sell on eBay for $196 and some odd cents.

 

How can this be???

 

 

 

-maXiMo

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[Pablo]

Because it has lint, fingerprints, scents, and remembrances from a long time ago.....

[Gene/ZR1]

ok, spend $200 ,then look at it, then put it back in the box and put it on a shelf, go figure.

[SlotStox#53]

Ouch! Just like the Riggen "Pro" series squished Dodge Charger in box with decals that went for $211

Glad I didn't bother bidding on that Spoiler !

[Martin]

The real deal will always be worth a lot more than a reproduction, If your going to spend your time building a period correct car why not use period parts. I am glad there are enthusiasts out there that value this stuff.

Even if it sits untouched on display you are buying potential or maybe just saving the past and preserving memories.

When nobody cares they will be cheap or just thrown away, and that would be a same don't you think? 

[Mark Wampler]

Thingies rock!  Born out of the San Francisco Bay area.  They were long, light and all inline.  Designed for fast, swoopy tracks that were part of the SF Bay scene.  Wing cars can trace their origin from thingies.  

[Samiam]

" Wingies "

[macman]

Yes, Max, I am afraid they are pretty much dead... The Thingie revolution would seem to be history, most of the main proponents are just busy doing other things. 

[Maximo]

"They" are dead, but "My" thingies live on!

 

Well I am still here!!!

 

I don't do the CIA / Zuckerberg Farcebook any more. It's here or no where I suppose, but I always support Cheater here as I am able.

 

Recently, Gene distributed thingie bodies to some that wanted them but so far NO new thingies have appeared.

 

It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings...!

 

 

 

-maXimO

[Jairus]

Hope not, I just finished building one for issue #6...     

 

 

In fact, I hope to have at least one Thingy built or featured in each issue eventually.

[Dennis David]

I think there will always be a place for thingies as long as we're still around which ain't saying much ...

[Tim Wilkins]

Thingies are just plain cool, whether you race them or not.  A pair painted by Billy Watson.

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[olescratch]

Some of us must "spread" our time over many interests, hobbies.  Because of this we may not seem to exist at times.  Here in Ohio, winter is the time to devote your time to things that require you to be inside!  I have a number of bodies that I will get back to completing during the winter months, so hold on if possible.  I have a couple "custom cuchs" that I plan to complete as soon as I put my fishing gear away!!!  Thingies are not dead, on a break for me!  BTW, what issue are we up to now that we may never see?

[Martin]

They are not dead, they are just resting.

BTW wing cars are an evolution of the Pro car scene. If you look back you will see small aero attachments added to sports and GT car bodies. The rules at the time limited what you could do. Racers and body makers just kept pushing  those rules to the point where you ended up with a modern day wing car. That evolution took about 10 years.

Thingies on the other hand had no such limit on aero and this small local sub culture took full advantage of that in 1968.

My dates need to be fact checked but what I am suggesting here is that they were on 2 different paths governed  by different rules and the reason they are now of similar design is the science of aerodynamics and racers wanting to exploit down force to get faster lap times.

If Pro cars had had no rules and did not try and look like 1/1 race cars for as long as they did, they would have been racing wing cars probably by 1968. I am glad it happened the way it did. Diversity of the species.

Long live the memory and the recreation of the almost instinct Thingie. Definitely a design ahead of its time.

[Maximo]

Thingies will be alive until the last person who remembers them is gone.... 

 

Otherwise, there are still new thingie births to celebrate and new thingie ideas to embrace.

 

From the Manta Ray to the Choti to the Shinoda to the Unidentified examples that we have all seen...

 

Long live thingies, like it or not world!

 

 

-MaxImo

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[Pablo]

Thingies will be alive until the last person who remembers them is gone....

-MaxImo

Bingo. I love Thingies, always have, always will.

[Gene/ZR1]

Thingies will be alive until the last person who remembers them is gone.... 

 

Otherwise, there are still new thingie births to celebrate and new thingie ideas to embrace.

 

From the Manta Ray to the Choti to the Shinoda to the Unidentified examples that we have all seen...

 

Long live thingies, like it or not world!

 

 

-MaxImo

 

 

David

Here is the mold for the white car you posted.

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[Maximo]

Yes Gene, that's the one.

 

 

 

-mAximO

[Maximo]

I really don't know why everyone went away???, but I didn't get the memo....!!!

 

Anyway...

In the next several months and continuing for as long as possible, I intend to introduce some new thingie projects using the materials others have selflessly slaved away to provide!

 

With that a new line-up of MAXIMO thingies will result. A new patent recently applied for called the "NEATO EDO" and also the "WONDER"! Wonder what that could be?

 

The mumbling of a madman?

The distortion noise of a freak?

The hallucinogenic call of the wild?

Yeah probably...

Or just a passionate slot car head with too much time on his hands.

 

Stayed tooned! Or not. That is the question.

 

 

-MaxiMo

[Jairus]

Toon'd in! 

[Mach9]

May I ask what material those molds are made of? Thanks.

[John Gorski]

No there not dead! I just made some HO Thingies for my home track..  

 

How I remember Thingies is  back in the day the California Dudes made scratchbuilt

inlines Super Light almost no frame with body shown below. The wing like body kept

the light inline chassis pushed down on the track Super Fast on the straight so so in corners but

it was the original birth of todays Wing Cars idea. I even built one back in the day it was FAST (down the shoot).

 

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[Detroit Dave]

Thingies are the best!  I always have a couple on the workbench.  Including a couple from Gene currently.  Will grab some pictures and post soon. 

[Gene/ZR1]

Maximo
Fall is coming, will be up and running soon, stand by.
Last year for work, 90 days.
Stay tuned for some fresh stuff coming to a work bench near you.

G:

[Detroit Dave]

I also can't wait to see what's next!  Here are two of the bodies I got from you last year.

And the chassis I mated them to. 

 

I am so glad you are here to provide us with these wonderful bodies to work with.